Vietnam Defence Forum

[Viet]

New camera surveillance system developed by VietTel, with capability to process the input of more than 2,000 cameras. The system is currently being deployed at Saigon police forces.

 

[Carlosa]

Pacific leaders urged to pressure Vietnam over illegal fishing

By VnExpress May 4, 2017

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency asked regional leaders to give Vietnam ‘a clear message’ about repeated offenses.

Vietnam is set to face stronger pressure from Pacific countries about its fishermen repeatedly poaching marine resources in the area, Radio New Zealand reported.

Government officials from the affected countries – the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands – were in Australia this week to attend a Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency meeting where they were urged to increase pressure on Vietnam to take responsibility for the poaching.

James Movick, the agency’s director general, said Pacific leaders should push as far as their diplomatic engagements allow to give the Vietnamese government “a clear message”.

The report said Vietnam had been receptive to complaints from Australia about the poaching, but dismissive of those from Pacific countries.

Dozens of Vietnamese fishermen have been caught fishing illegally in the area in recent months.

In March alone, 43 Vietnamese were caught fishing illegally off a reef system in the Solomon Islands, while 50 others were fined $6,300-47,000 each for illegally harvesting sea cucumbers in Papua New Guinea. They will face four years hard labor if they fail to pay.

 

[Viet]

Back to the sky: Supersonic F-5 Tiger. The US could have her hands in assisting Vietnam to bring the birds back to life. Vietnamese airforce has some 114 Tigers in storage.

 

[jhungary]

Back to the sky: Supersonic F-5 Tiger. The US could have her hands in assisting Vietnam to bring the birds back to life. Vietnamese airforce has some 114 Tigers in storage.

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This will be quite hard.

We don't make F-5 anymore, and there are currently no support service offering to F-5, maybe you can contract NG to make it F-20 Tigershark? Or find one of the Air force that still uses F-5 (Swiss, Taiwan, ROKAF)

 

[sahureka2]

This will be quite hard.

We don't make F-5 anymore, and there are currently no support service offering to F-5, maybe you can contract NG to make it F-20 Super Tiger? Or find one of the Air force that still uses F-5 (Swiss, Taiwan, ROKAF)

For the truth, there is still someone who realizes it, or at least realizes many spare parts, and is in Iran.
But maybe there were a few of those F-5s, it was rumored that in the past many went to Iran and Ethiopia

 

[Viet]

Some special guests are expected to the Cam Ranh bay, Đà Nẵng and Nha Trang in the second week of May: Japan helicopter carrier J.S. Izumo and US fast transport vessel USNS Fall River (T-EPF-4). the ships and crews will stay for 10 days before heading to exercises in the Pacific.

 

[Viet]

The army is testing new developed reactive armor for the tanks.

Like an engineer: try to make a thing better.

 

[Carlosa]

Back to the sky: Supersonic F-5 Tiger. The US could have her hands in assisting Vietnam to bring the birds back to life. Vietnamese airforce has some 114 Tigers in storage.

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Where did you get the number 114? As I understand, the south vietnamese air force had 40+ F-5s and I used to read that only a few remain now.

 

[Viet]

Where did you get the number 114? As I understand, the south vietnamese air force had 40+ F-5s and I used to read that only a few remain now.

from the most credible source: soha

http://soha.vn/bat-ngo-lon-tiem-kic...u-cua-quan-doi-viet-nam-20170505100715095.htm
"Theo ước tính, thời điểm sau khi giải phóng Sài Gòn, Không quân Nhân dân Việt Nam đã thu được tổng cộng 87 tiêm kích F-5A/B Tiger cùng với 27 chiếc F-5E/F Tiger II từ tay Không lực Việt Nam Cộng Hòa."

of course today there are only few remained that could fly. not 114. they all once belong to South Vietnam

 

[Viet]

An unexpected guest is coming for an expected visit: General Fan Changlong. He is Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, the official body that controls and commands Chinese armed forces. But the ultimate decision to make between peace or war is reportedly made by a small inner circle of Chinese communist party: the polibuero. Good to know: Mr Changlong is one of the members of.

Since the oil rig crisis Vietnam's trust to the Chinese remains extremely low.

 

[Viet]

The mainstay of Vietnam's coastal defense against assaults of large enemy warships as amphibious troop transport craft, frigate, destroyer and aircraft carrier: Yakhont antiship missiles. The engineering corps reportedly have some success in producing spare parts for the missile complex saving necessary imports from Russia.

Life isn't easy.

 

[Aqsuperman]

Usage of captured US-made aircraft in the VPAF.

 

[Viet]

Hanoi, May 5. Receiving Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Kunio Umeda to discuss preparations for the Vietnamese PM Nguyen’s upcoming official visit to Japan. Nguyen will hold talks with Shinzo Abe and members of parliament. Vietnam and Japan are expected to sign many agreements in economy, trade and defense, probably also the terms of a Japanese led TPP-11. Vietnam is not much happy of decline of Japan.

on patrol at sea

tank assault

 

[Viet]

Nice sport cars for transporting the incoming APEC Vietnam 2017 guests: Audi Sportback 5 edition. the german car maker is selected to provide the cars and driver training for 600 drivers of Vietnam security services.

Meanwhile the APEC 2017 special guests of Vietnam Foreign Office will be chaffeured by 25 pieces of Mercedes S400L car edition

It will be a big event again like last year when Barack Obama visited Vietnam. Again, security will be put on highest alert when Donald Trump arrives the city of Da Nang in November. I wonder whether the city will complete all projects on time.

 

[Viet]

Vietnamese-Korean advises a presidential candidate
Posted : 2017-04-14 14:01
The Korea Times

By Kim Ji-soo

Won Ok-kum was named an honorary mayor of Seoul in October 2016. / Courtesy of Won Ok-kum

Nguyen Ngoc Cam smiled broadly as she pulled out three name cards from her purse on meeting this reporter _ one for her role as an honorary mayor of Seoul, one for her role as president of the translation and interpretation company Dong Hanh, and the third for her role as a representative of Vietnam Community in Seoul. The latter is a group representing the interests of Vietnamese people in the greater Seoul area.

Nguyen also has a Korean name, Won Ok-kum.

At her office in Mangwon-dong, northwestern Seoul, April 5, the vivacious mother of two children was in the midst of a meeting with fellow Vietnamese Trieu Van Manh. Trieu had just been released from a detention center at Incheon International Airport, 20 days after the Korean company he worked for, a construction firm, had illegally cancelled his work contract.

With interpretation and translation help from Won, Trieu was released from detention and will start work with the same employer.

This is what Won does a lot these days, helping Vietnamese people in Korea who are caught in a legal conundrum for one reason or another.

As head of Vietnam Community, Won has been tapped to help Moon Jae-in, the presidential candidate of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea, work with a group of female advisers on policies for women. This is not the first time she has worked with Moon; she participated in his first presidential bid in 2012. Moon is currently enjoying the lead over the four other candidates for the May 9 presidential election. They are Ahn Cheol-soo of the minor liberal People's Party; Yoo Seong-min of the Bareun Party, Hong Joon-pyo of Liberty Korea Party and Sim Sang-jung of the opposition Justice Party.

All candidates have a group of advisers, but Moon has several that focus on specific issues. And having an advisory group on women's issues seems fitting. Even though Korea has seen significant progress in women's rights in recent years, women here, who comprise half the voters, still face more challenges regarding housework, marriage and other social norms.

"I would like to propose a fairer distribution of welfare benefits across a range of foreign residents in Korea," Won said. There are an estimated 2.1 million foreign residents in Seoul, about 1.1 million of whom are women. But welfare benefits are currently given to only 280,000 people mainly in multicultural families, she said.

"But there is a far larger number of people who come to Korea to study, live and work, and we should build counseling centers for these people too," she said. She also recommended providing other benefits to foreign residents and their families, such as expanding government subsidies for their children.

She joined the group that includes a wide range of women experts in various fields including Choi Gyeong-sook, the former chief of an anti-nuclear group; Pi Woo-jin, the nation's first female military helicopter pilot; and Choi Hyeong-sook, chief of Intree, a group that supports single mothers and others.

The advisory group met on April 2 at a cafe in Mapo, Seoul, during which each member presented her policy recommendations. Moon did not come, but Won hopes to meet him in person.

As a Vietnamese married to a Korean, Won sees similarities between Moon's work as a human rights lawyer and the causes she promotes for Vietnamese residents in Korea.

Won is originally from Dong Nai in Vietnam. She met her Korean husband while he was working on a construction site in Vietnam where she was serving as an interpreter. They got married, and she came to Korea in 1997.

"Twenty years, I have been living in Korea," she said, smiling broadly. Asked on the top challenges she faced adjusting to a new life in Korea, she paused for a while before saying cautiously, "I experienced prejudice. It was prejudice either in the form of people ignoring me because I was a foreigner, or by speaking to me in ‘banmal,'" Won said, referring the casual form of speech in Korean that is in contrast to the polite form people usually use when meeting someone for the first time or speaking to someone older.

She said she didn't mention this experience at the Sunday meeting of female advisers. However, she has been working with foreign residents' groups to have an anti-prejudice law legislated.

"(The anti-prejudice law) won't just be about the foreign residents in Seoul, but any group that is in the minority, including gender minority groups and others," she said.

Won said she has always been an active even back in Vietnam. After arriving in Seoul, she majored in law at Korea National Open University, where she graduated in February 2011. She then pursued graduate studies in judicial affairs at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Konkuk University in Seoul, where she graduated in August 2013. She has done a lot of interpretation work in courts. For instance, the week of the interview, she was at the Labor Court, and on Thursday, she headed to Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, where she will interpret for victims in sexual assault cases.

She had experienced hardship and insecurity for much of her first 15 years in Korea, and she said money, though important, was not the main factor in her decision to do interpretation work. "Now, people see me as a role model, and I like being involved," she said. The Vietnam Community in Seoul was launched in 2014, and while there are other such community groups, this one is considered to have been set up "early" among the foreign residents in Korea, she said.

Can we expect to see her become the next foreign-born National Assembly lawmaker, following former ruling party lawmaker Jasmine Lee, who is from the Philippines?

"No, I think I am too under-qualified," she said.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/04/120_227558.html